Python Membership Operators Example

Following table shows all the membership operators supported by Python language.

Operator

Description

Example

in

Evaluates to true if it finds a variable in the specified sequence and false otherwise.

x in y, here in results in a 1 if x is a member of sequence y.

not in

Evaluates to true if it does not finds a variable in the specified sequence and false otherwise.

x not in y, here not in results in a 1 if x is a member of sequence y.

Example:

Try following example to understand all the membership operators available in Python programming language:

#!/usr/bin/python
a = 10
b = 20
list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ];
if ( a in list ):
print "Line 1 - a is available in the given list"
else:
print "Line 1 - a is not available in the given list"
if ( b not in list ):
print "Line 2 - b is not available in the given list"
else:
print "Line 2 - b is available in the given list"
a = 2
if ( a in list ):
print "Line 3 - a is available in the given list"
else:
print "Line 3 - a is not available in the given list"

When you execute the above program it produces the following result:

Line 1 - a is not available in the given list
Line 2 - b is not available in the given list
Line 3 - a is available in the given list